Tag: Magazine
Our Young Folks
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Our-Young-Folks-Our-First-Childrens-Magazine.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/9/2007 Our Young Folks Transcript Our Young Folks is an illustrated magazine for children published monthly for nine years from January 1, 1865, through October, 1873, when it was absorbed into St. Nicholas Magazine. Written for children between the ages of 10 and 18, its editors […]
Kind News
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/22Kind-News22.mp3 Author Seth Blazer Air Date 9/21/2006 Kind News Transcript “Why did the trash can go on a diet?” The answer: because “It wanted to reduce its waste!” This is just one of the many clever yet eco-friendly riddles that one might find in the award-winning publication Kind News. “What […]
School Lunches – Back in the Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/School-Lunches-Back-in-the-Day-.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/14/2006 School Lunches Transcript In the March 1877 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, the editor asked her young readers to write to her and describe “what you ordinarily take to school for your noon feeding.” She had noticed that one […]
Ranger Rick
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ranger-RIck-Magazine.mp3 Author Lisa Dusenberry Air Date 8/16/2006 Ranger Rick Transcript Have you ever wondered whether insects get sick? Or what the world’s strongest animal is? Well, according to the National Wildlife Federation’s Ranger Rick Magazine, insects get sick just like people, from a variety of viruses and bacteria, and the world’s strongest animal […]
Mad Magazine
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mad-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2005 Mad Magazine Transcript It’s the birthday this month of Bill Gaines, the publisher of one of the edgiest institutions in American childhood, Mad Magazine. Since its first appearance in comic book form in the fall of 1952, Mad’s brand of outlandish, satiric humor was […]
The Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Thanksgiving-Dinner-That-Flew.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/25/2004 The Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away Transcript “A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away” is a poignant story about a cranky gander and a beloved son lost at sea that appeared in the juvenile periodical St. Nicholas in November, 1883. Hester is a young girl arriving […]
St. Nicholas and Poetry
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Young-Poets-in-St-Nicholas-Magazine.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/13/2004 St. Nicholas and Poetry Transcript In 1899, the editors of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls established monthly competitions in various arts, including poetry. The winning entries were published in the magazine, in a column called “The St. Nicholas League.” Each monthly competition had […]
Word Dance
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Word-Dance-A-Creative-Kids-Magazine.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/20/2003 Word Dance Transcript If you have an aspiring young writer in your household, who’s been churning out stories and poems all winter, and is yearning to see her work in print, you might want to find out more about Word Dance. It’s a non-profit magazine […]
St. Nicholas League, First Kids’ Club
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/St-Nicholas-League-First-Kids-Club.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/21/2002 St. Nicholas League, First Kids’ Club Transcript St. Nicholas was a popular American juvenile periodical that was issued monthly from November 1873 through March 1940. Throughout its history, various departments were established and abolished: The column “Curiosity Shop” for example, focused attention on […]
Maud Tousey Fangel, Baby Painter
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maud-Tausey-Fangel.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/2/2002 Maud Tausey Fangel, Baby Painter Transcript In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s — if you saw a sketch or portrait of a child on the cover of Ladies Home Journal or Woman’s Home Companion, or inside the magazines advertising, say, Colgate’s Talc Powder, […]